Ideas Rose In Clouds; I

It Is With Logic That One Proves; It Is With Intuition That One Invents.

Consider Now The Milky Way. Here Also We See An Innumerable Dust, Only The Grains Of This Dust Are No Longer Atoms But Stars; These Grains Also Move With Great Velocities, They Act At A Distance One Upon Another, But This Action Is So Slight At Great Distances That Their Trajectories Are Rectilineal; Nevertheless, From Time To Time, Two Of Them May Come Near Enough Together To Be Deviated From Their Course, Like A Comet That Passed Too Close To Jupiter. In A Word, In The Eyes Of A Giant, To Whom Our Suns Were What Our Atoms Are To Us, The Milky Way Would Only Look Like A Bubble Of Gas.

It Is The Simple Hypotheses Of Which One Must Be Most Wary; Because These Are The Ones That Have The Most Chances Of Passing Unnoticed.

But All Of My Efforts Served Only To Make Me Better Acquainted With The Difficulty, Which In Itself Was Something.

We Also Know How Cruel The Truth Often Is, And We Wonder Whether Delusion Is Not More Consoling.