"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made of trees, with flexible parts on which are imprinted many dark squiggles. But it is still a world of strong emotion, of thought, of revelat…"

"The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the way to do science."

"...how is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant…"

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"If we are to survive, we must be willing to change."