Scientific understanding is an essential step to our finding a home for ourselves in the universe. Through understanding the universe, we become at home in it. In a certain sense we have made this universe out of human concepts and human discoveries. It ceases to be a lonely place, because we can to some extent actually navigate in it.

In: A.A. Warner, Dean Morse and T.E. Cooney (eds.), The Environment of Change, The Revolution in Science (p. 49)