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

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

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

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

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

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

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