The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.

I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

In every high school, there is a clique.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

I work every single day, even on Sundays.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.