“Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it” PhilosophyWilliam HerschelFrederick William HerschelFriedrich Wilhelm HerschelWilhelm Herschel Book:Moby-Dick or, The Whale Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale