If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?
Camille FlammarionThe universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.
Camille FlammarionWhat, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?
Camille FlammarionThere are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
Camille FlammarionWhat intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?
Camille Flammarion