The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

I am no one's to be claimed, I belong to me.

Do not rush in the ride of life.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.

The divine is in all things.

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.