The Universe Can Best Be Pictured As

All Discussion Of The Ultimate Nature Of Things Must Necessarily Be Barren Unless We Have Some Extraneous Standards Against Which To Compare Them.

The Really Happy Person Is The One Who Can Enjoy The Scenery, Even When They Have To Take A Detour.[make The Best Of What Is Necessary...if You Can't Have What You Love, Love What You Have...as There Are Lovable Or At Least Positive Aspects In Everything, Because Anything Could Be Worse]

In This Model, The Sun Is A Very Tiny Speck Of Dust Indeed-a Speck Less Than A Three-thousandth Of An Inch In Diameter ... Think Of The Sun As Something Less Than A Speck Of Dust In A Vast City, Of The Earth As Less Than A Millionth Part Of Such A Speck Of Dust, And We Have Perhaps As Vivid A Picture As The Mind Can Really Grasp Of The Relation Of Our Home In Space To The Rest Of The Universe.

Put Three Grains Of Sand Inside A Vast Cathedral, And The Cathedral Will Be More Closely Packed With Sand Than Space Is With Stars.

Kant, Discussing The Various Modes Of Perception By Which The Human Mind Apprehends Nature, Concluded That It Is Specially Prone To See Nature Through Mathematical Spectacles. Just As A Man Wearing Blue Spectacles Would See Only A Blue World, So Kant Thought That, With Our Mental Bias, We Tend To See Only A Mathematical World.