Nowadays, cosmology seems rather unexciting.

The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.