It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind. . . it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location. . . it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.