There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

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.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.

Steve Bannon has quoted as lamenting the fact that he predicts a "Fox News" that will be more centrist in the future. He came after our boss Rupert Murdoch in some unflattering terms.

I have a silicone bust, and half of Hollywood - artificial person.

So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.