The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.

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.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

The cloth cap on my headdoesn't tellwhat's in it.

Stop your ignorance! Seek for wisdom and give understanding a way!

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'