“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.

We can’t help it. Life looks for life.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

In order to develop love – universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Be warned! From Satan’s viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.

Whatever be our individual, social or other interests, we should not forget that we have only one cosmic home, Earth.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.