The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible read more

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and read more

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, read more

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?"

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of read more

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice read more

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, read more

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.