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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

Don’t be so vain to think that you ruined me, that you wrecked me, destroyed me.I am the only one who has the power to do that.—Amanda Helm,

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.