I love cosmology: there's something uplifting about viewing the entire universe as a single object with a certain shape. What entity, short of God, could be nobler or worthier of man's attention than the cosmos itself? Forget about interest rates, forget about war and murder, let's talk about space.

The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality - Chapter 7 (p. 91), Houghton Mifflin Company. 1984