There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

We aren't either afraid or brave, we’re usually both.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' clearly have no grasp of irony.

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

If you want to change a mind, there's no better way than a dialogue over coffee.