While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.