I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

There is no sin except stupidity.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.