We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

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.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Life is the greatest sacred existence.

Optimal design delivers information in ways that are useful, beautiful and improve the experience of all involved: audience, client and designer.

Remember, this type doesn’t really believe He’ll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.

The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

Civilization depends on morality.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.