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A Million Years of Starlight
Religious literalists suffer from a clarity fetish. They want the world to be clearer than it is.
Rejoicing in the mystery of things does not mean a lack of curiosity about facts. If religion still has a purpose for humanity… it must include a reverence for the mysteries of life…
Some of humanity’s most disastrous moments have come when people chose the clarity of language over the ambiguity of reality.
— Jim Rigby
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when (he, she, they) contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.”
— Einstein
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“The interesting thing to me is the thing a person sees that no one else can see. For me that is the freshly informing moment. But how to discover that in us? I’m really interested in the strangeness. The strangeness of being alive. Not the thing I want to hear….
I often tell my students I’m crouching in the question mark.
— Laura Lenz
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