Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.

Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.

A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.

You're dressed for dancing, " she said in her throaty stage voice. "Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.