Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - C. S. Lewis

Looking for God—or Heaven—by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.