“...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.”

“Man has been going through three kinds of wars. One is with nature; another is with other people and third is with himself.”

“Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.”

“Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.”

“The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.”

“Love. Such an untamed force of nature. You love and let die. Every one experiences it at one point in life”