Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Love brought its tail of pains, its long static beam of thorns, and we close our eyes so that nothing, so that no wound will separate us.

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!

Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.