Sumptuous Planet (A Secular Mass): IX. Belief. The Truth

“I believe ... an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, ... a ... beautiful, ... wonderful place.”

“My eyes are ... wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how ... natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to make redwood trees and humans.”

“The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or ... mystery or miracle.”