There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

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.

A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.

Business is about creating VALUE for people. And earning money is the OUTCOME of creating value for people!

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back, ' and so on. But they are all stories.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!!

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

Adults are the real monsters.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.