The truth of the matter is no society, not even our severely secularized technocracy, can ever dispense with mystery and magical ritual. - Theodore Roszak

We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect.

In a time when so many artists have learned to confabulate with extremes of horror and alienation, the most daring thing an artist can do is to fill a book, a gallery, or a theater with joy, hope, and beauty.

Without apoptosis, life would not be possible. ...when cells lose their ability to die, they run rampant, assuming that life-threatening form we call cancer. ...The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal. ...Cells ...need to be "encouraged" to live.