The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

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.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday…

It’s you and me that matters to me and you.

Human body consists of nearly 60% of water. So, wasting of water is like destroying human life.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.