Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

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

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

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

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Love was the most savage monster of all.

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re, nothing else that you do matters.

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.