We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song if
their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought
not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the
heavens....The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the
treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the
human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
-- Johannes Kepler
Related:
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heave by the
vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity,
to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any
time to destruction....
