The World Is Moving Faster And Faster,

You've Made Something Grand, But It Will Be Grander If It Has Feeling And Beauty And Harmony.

We Live In A Highly Polarized Society. We Need To Try To Understand Each Other In Respectful Ways. To That End, I Believe That We Should Make Room For Both Spiritual Atheists And Thinking Believers.

As Human Beings, Don't We Need Questions Without Answers As Well As Questions With Answers, Questions That We Might Someday Answer And Questions That We Can Never Answer?

As Both A Scientist And A Humanist Myself, I Have Struggled To Understand Different Claims To Knowledge, And I Have Eventually Come To A Formulation Of The Kind Of Religious Belief That Would, In My View, Be Compatible With Science.

Novels Aren't Pedagogical Instruments, Or Instructions In Law Or Physics Or Any Other Discipline. A Novel Has To Be An Emotional Experience, A Trip Of The Imagination, And Because Science Has Raised So Many Issues That Concern And Affect Humans, It's A Good Starting Place For Me.