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"The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed."
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Source: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”
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