Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

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.

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.

Men would be angels Angels would be gods.

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.