“If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problem
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
“The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight