The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.