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

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.

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.

A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.

The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

There is no gambling like politics.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.