The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

A job is a temporary need

The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

Football is potential post-career suicide.