Half The Battle Is Just Showing Up.

The Large-scale Homogeneity Of The Universe Makes It Very Difficult To Believe That The Structure Of The Universe Is Determined By Anything So Peripheral As Some Complicated Molecular Structure On A Minor Planet Orbiting A Very Average Star In The Outer Suburbs Of A Fairly Typical Galaxy.

Why Are We Here? Where Do We Come From? Traditionally, These Are Questions For Philosophy, But Philosophy Is Dead.

So Remember To Look Up At The Stars And Not Down At Your Feet. Try To Make Sense Of What You See And Hold On To That Childlike Wonder About What Makes The Universe Exist.

Quiet People Have The Loudest Minds.

We Got Through All Of Genesis And Part Of Exodus Before I Left. One Of The Main Things I Learned From This Exercise Was Not To Begin A Sentence With "and." When I Pointed Out That Most Sentences In The Bible Began With "and," I Was Told That English Had Changed Since The Time Of King James. In That Case, I Argued, Why Make Us Read The Bible? But It Was In Vain. Robert Graves At That Time Was Very Keen On The Symbolism And Mysticism In The Bible.