The Universe is huge and awful every way, we might so easily be crushed by it; we need the help of every agency available, and if we had no helpers we should stand a poor chance. The loneliness of it when we leave the planet would be appalling; sometimes even here the loneliness is great.
In: James Edward Hand, Ideals of Science & Faith, A Physicist's Approach (p. 48), Longmans, Green & Co. 1904