"So my friend tried to call me the other week... but all he was getting was an automated answer."

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

"Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious, and however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

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

"The human race is a single genetic stock, and we are all brothers and sisters. It's time that we started to act like it."