‘Who would deny the sacrilege of grasping
an unwilling heaven, enslaving it, as it were,
in its own domain, and fetching it to earth?’
(Manilius)

‘It was the grandeur of a mechanistic
universe, awesome and awful, that banished
in its chilly light the last shadows of the
mythic universe, a universe in which
shivering human beings stood and reassured
one another of its glory and wonder’.
(Harrison)