There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

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.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.