...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

Worry erases the promises of God from your mind.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.