Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. . -Ursula K. LeGuin.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.