The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.

Mother Goose!I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Popular culture has made it okay to yell "I want a man!" from the rooftops, so why are we still embarrassed to say, "I want a best friend"?

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

The worst things in life comes free to us

I love my kids and would rather be with them than anyone in the whole wide world.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.