I came ready to fight Genghis Khan and I walk in on a shut-in playing the biggest Dungeons and Dragons game in history.
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.
I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.