Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.