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To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Thomas Carlyle
Men, Wisest Man, Squares
Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.