It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.
I write all my sermons.
Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
Stephen: We've got to survive! Somebody's got to survive!
Stephen Hawking: No... doctors. No doctors!
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
So I decided on science when I was in college.
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
I was born in revolution.
I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.
Maybe we all change over time.
My dad was a cross-country truck driver.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
