The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

Will you come with me? For I cannot wait to share the world with you, Jem. There is so much to see.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.