The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

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

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.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.