“It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces.”
“Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.”
“What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.”
“Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.”
“...like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.”
“Longing on a large scale makes history.”