“It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.”

“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”

“Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”

“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.”

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

“We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.”

“You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned”