Search the quotation archive

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.