Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (Ballantine, 1999), p. 178
“We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating … second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind.”
"A Special Fondness for Beetles", pp. 386-387
Dinosaur in a Haystack (1995)
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