Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Man is a universe within himself.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.
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