“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”

“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”

“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?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”

“The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”

“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”