The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

To see more is to become more.