By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

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.

That is our larger destiny: to allow the Earth to organize in a new way, in a manner impossible all the billions of years prior to humanity

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

There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.