It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.