“Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.”

A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.

With science’s truths the only accessible ones.

Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.

Never ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’.

It invited new ways of thinking.

It demanded a new rationale for belief.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion.

a world of evolution ‘and unchanging causation’.

The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.

Other times, you’re doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

The cosmos doesn’t measure sweat and hours for reward. The cosmos deals in the currencies of joy and satisfaction.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.