Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.