We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

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.

Time is the material from which everything is made

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?’ she asked. ‘Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?’‘You misbehaved monstrously, ’ he said, ‘and were a triumph.

...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife.

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

Things that are unknown attract us.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.