Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls….

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works..

There is so much left of it to explore..

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll.

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture..

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets..

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look..

One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the b….

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false..

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself..

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because ….

[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy..

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on..

The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally sto….

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really w….

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even ….

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermin….

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising..

As we get older, things seem less important..

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hangin….

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars..