The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Jealousy is the loss of joy.

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.