Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they've known it all along.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.