Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

He is not the same person as when wemet, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Time: her heart wretched. What a useless thing, her mind growled. Only humans would be so arrogant and so stupid as to count down their own deaths.

Necessity knows no rules.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

I think you have to be true to the script that you're given.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.