Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand maj…

Blaise Pascal
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Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere. ✨ Blaise Pascal (1959). Pascal's Pensées: Selections, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan
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