Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.

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

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

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

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.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems.