"The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?"
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Richard Feynman, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964), Vol. I, Lecture 3 : The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences, § 3-4, Astronomy, p. 3-6
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