The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.