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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.