There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Once upon a time when there was no time.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

...man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey...

Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.

Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

He's up there. But (Marat) Safin, on his game, is as hard to beat.

Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.