Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway.