If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Magic is just science that we don’t understand yet.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
There's a way to do it better - find it.