Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

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.

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.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences