"I was always interested in things that are on the edge of what we know."

"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw the brightest star in the sky. And it was moving!"

"The world is full of people who are trying to figure out what's going on, and they're all wrong."

"I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me."

"I simply want to find out more about the world, and I find that the best way to do that is to do science."