There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

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.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

As we review our worries, we should make it a habit each day to God, "what is it I should focus on today"?

Our human resources as marshalled by the will were not sufficient they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.