The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

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.

The love for God is the love for nature.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

People cannot stand too much Reality.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

There's something kind of beautiful about that pure love of things. Like, "I'll show that I love the thing I love by hating everything else."