Text: If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? -- Huxley * The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. -- William James * The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. -- Thomas Paine * All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. -- Thomas Browne * The universe seems . . . to have been determined and ordered in accordance with number, by the forethought and the mind of the creator of all things; for the pattern was fixed, like a preliminary sketch, by the domination of number preexistent in the mind of the world-creating God. -- Nicomachus of Gerasa * In their study of Nature's secrets, they not only find wonderful pleasure for themselves, but they believe that they please the author and maker of Nature. For they think that in the manner of other artificers, He has exposed this machine of the universe to man's view because man alone is able to contemplate it, and that therefore a careful observer and eager admirer of his workmanship is dearer to him than a dull and unmoved being who looks upon this great spectacle like an animal incapable of thought. -- Sir Thomas More Utopia, 1551 A.D. * Popular theology . . . is a massive inconstancy derived from ignorance . . . The gods exist because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men. -- Cicero * Gods do not think as men think. The thoughts of men are images; the thoughts of gods are living beings. -- Rudolph Steiner * You see, Justine, I believe that Gods are men and men Gods; they intrude on each other's lives, trying to express themselves through each other -- hence such apparent confusion in our human states of mind, our intimations of powers within or beyond us. -- THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET By Lawrence Durrell * Dwelling within the realm of Zero, ruling a Kingdom beyond normal understanding is God. He would reveal Himself to those who understand and realize Him. -- Kannadasan * The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.' -- S. Bonaventura * What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -- Eliot * Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824)

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