| One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousand years. To read is to voyage through time. |
| Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. |
| We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. |
| I don't want to believe. I want to know. |
| I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is, among elementary school youngsters than among college students. |
| Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. |
| The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space. |
| Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path. |
| The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. |
| For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love. |
| For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. |
| For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. |
| Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. |
| We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. |
| Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. |
| Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. |
| The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. |
