Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the Palomar reflector; collisions between and among them do, of course, occur. But these collisions are very long and silent slides. Billions of stars sift amont each other untouched, too distant even to be moved, heedless as always, hushed. The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. But God knows I have tried.

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.

It's a melting pot southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music and it's pretty amazing.