I have become a student of the sky and know all the clouds there are and have firmly fixed in mind the various hues of blue that the sky can showThere is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith — and, indeed, our hope — the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid...
Clifford D. Simak