Despair has its own calms.
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.
Past time is finite, future time is infinite.
Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word