Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.

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

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

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

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.