“I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.” IfsShouldBelieveStillsMatterReasonScienceUniverseIndividualBeliefInterestRaceCreatorCornersTinyReason WhyNo ReasonInsignificantPrimevalFortuitous Author:Rosalind Franklin
“Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence” ReasonUniverseTermConsciousnessProduceEssenceIntimateNo ReasonIncapable Author:Ezra Pound
“Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.” ReasonOrderUniverseMaterialsLimitsBuiltDistanceWaveExtremesDimensionsNo ReasonAtomsSmallestVibrationsFrequency Author:Wilhelm Rontgen
“Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.” FeelsHumansSometimesReasonFeelingsSeemsMightUniverseHuman BeingsCuttingMagicPoetWallSpringPicksInfiniteRadioNo ReasonMysticismStationsThickOverwhelmed Book:The Occult: A History Source: The Occult: A History