The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.