"Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself."

"I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild."

"It's easier for me to let the game just come to me."

"I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game."

"If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go"

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"We can't help it. Life looks for life."

".. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'"

"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men."

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

"There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any."

"Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."

"If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."

"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."

"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."

"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."

"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

"You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals."

"We are star stuff harvesting sunlight."