"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."
"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster."
"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."