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I'm reading The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley. These quotes are from the essay "Science and the Sense of the Holy"
"The whole of existence frightens me, from the smallest fly to the mystery of the incarnation, everything is unintelligible to me, most of all myself." -- Soren KierKefaard
"...the cell consists of matter ... composed chiefly of carbon with an admixture of hydrogen, nitrogen and sulpher. These component parts, properly united produce the soul and body of the animated world, and suitably nourished become man. With this single argument the mystery of the universe is explained, the Diety annuled and a new era of infinite knowledge ushered in." -- Ernst Haeckel
"A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality of intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of high order." -- Albert Einstein
"whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in a shroud. -- Walt Whitman from Song of Myself
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