We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Every star may be a sun to someone.