"Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos — to the unknown — which alone a…"

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, the Universe, nay whole systems of Universes to be governed by laws; but the …"

"It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and intere…"

"The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us — there is a…"

"Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos center…"

"Whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not …"

"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity…"

"Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different…"

"The cosmos itself must of necessity be indestructible and uncreated. Indestructible because, suppose it destroyed: th…"

"Longer than memory we have known that each animal has its power and place, each a skill, virtue, wisdom, innocence — …"