We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.