"To admit that we are matter and mechanism is to ground our selves in the wholeness of the cosmos. In the new physics, self coalesces from the stuff of the stars, exists briefly,… then flows back into wholeness. Such a concept of self can be ennobling, cosmic, ecological—more so than the ghostly spirit soul I encountered in freshman theology…. To understand that we are structurally no different from the rest of the cosmos is to let ourselves expand into infinity"
Chet Raymo from Skeptics and True Believers
