Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I am putting out there on the stage.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

Whatever you do, don't do it.