Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.