Face to face Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's fun to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“What do we really want from religion? Palliatives? Therapy? Comfort? Do we want reassuring fables or an understanding of our actual circumstances? Dismay that…

— Carl Sagan

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we…

— Anonymous

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

— Nelly Furtado

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

— C. S. Lewis

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

— Paul Tsongas

“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in…

— John G. D. Clark

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested…

— Steven Weinberg

“our global memory, as we all recede backward through the Christian Era, through the Bronze Age, through the Neolithic, through the Stone Age consciousness…

— Monica Sjöö

In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival…

— Michael Ruse