"In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever."

“You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.”

“For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong. The nub of the problem is how to flip over, as in jujitsu, the magnificent growth energy of modern civilization into a nonacquisitive search for deeper knowledge of self and nature.”

“My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.”

Source : "Rocket Scientist". Interview with Josh Seftel, www.pbs.org. May 1, 2009.

“If we want to think about racism and how it might play out in drug policy, we have to think about the trial of George Zimmerman. We think about the prosecution, when they said "race is not a factor." It's so dishonest.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.”

“Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman”

“A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.”

“I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.”