“Some 13.8 billion years ago our entire visible universe was
contained in an unimaginably hot, dense point, a billionth the size of a
nuclear particle.” Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, National Geographic, April 2014, pg.
85
“The important thing is that sight begets philosophy. For ‘no man would seek God nor aspire to
piety unless he had first seen the sky and stars.’” C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image, chap. 4, pg.
55
At times opposing worldviews are separated only by a billionth
of a whisker*. A. Lee Benson, Musings On
My Back Porch
*Whisker is country talk for a beard hair.
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