“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
 

~ Tina Fey, Bossypants

 “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

~ Albert Einstein

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”

― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos