We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
Arthur EddingtonLet us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.
Arthur EddingtonWe have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
Arthur Eddington