I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Imagination decides everything.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

I need physics more than friends.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.