Future generations will probably be able to enlighten us on this very interesting subject, and then science itself—with all due respect—may reach conclusions that are more or less in keeping with Christ's sayings about the other half of our life.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN

The waters below are mayim (the Hebrew word for "water"), and waters above are sham-mayim—which some, but by no means all, scholars believe means "water there" (sham is Hebrew for "there").

Keep in mind, just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean that one does not exist. You simply haven't discovered it yet.

The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

He did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.