Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.