: with what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders, unwondering :

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Aesop's Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise!

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

'We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed sc…

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.