One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.
Gene WolfeReligion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.
Gene WolfeWe believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
Gene WolfeThere is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
Gene Wolfe