The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.
I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Death is the most blessed dream.
