Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.