This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.

Shamanism is not simply a component of society: on the contrary, shamanism, together with its tiered cosmos, can be said to be the overall framework of society.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.

The greatest truths are the simplest and so are the greatest men.

Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.