Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

The command to be free is a double bind

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.