If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.

I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.