[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's ….

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone..

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Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction. Owen believed in extinction but not evolution. Lamarck believed in evolution but not….

If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when ….

Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cos….

Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this….

Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". ….

Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot of all t….

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other..

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format..

Art is an artificial organization of experience..

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity..

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him..