The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.