Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.