When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.
Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing — a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science shows us that the visible world is neither matter nor spirit; the visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
