“We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.”

“The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose”

“Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)”

“I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

“If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks".”