In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

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

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.