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No creature loves an empty space;
Their bodies measure out their place.

— Andrew Marvell

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For though the whole world cannot show such another,
Yet we’d better by far have him than his brother.

The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

The Character of Holland (1653)

An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.

Where the remote Bermudas ride,
In th' ocean's bosom unespied.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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