I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

He heard something? That's the best the writer can do? That's so vague. Ambiguous. Fuzzy. Exactly. Sometimes the most powerful truths in a story are the ones that are never explicitly stated.

Science does an excellent job of telling me why I don't have a tail, but it can't explain why I find that interesting.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

medio maravilloso, cuyas posibilidades ocultas apenas sospechamos en la actualidad.

If you live the questions, life will move you into the answers.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.