“Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.”

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.

Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, “It makes me feel so insignificant.” I answer, “The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast.

Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it.

We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe.

Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.

You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.