There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .