85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.