You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

We are all made up of star stuff.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.