Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

It matters that you don't just give up.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

Computer viruses are alive.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.