[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.

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

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.