You have been taught a wretched and rudimentary origin of the world, imagined by a few ragged and ignorant Jews in a corner of Asia, which, having been written in a book, has been accepted down to our days.

This personal God, like to ourselves in His shape and passions, is an artificer of gigantic capacity, who worked six days and made everything existing.

On the first day He created light, and on the fourth the sun and stars; from whence then came that light if the sun had not then been created?
Is there any distinction between one and the other?
It seems impossible that such absurdities should have been credited for centuries." The listeners nodded their heads in assent; the absurdity appeared to them palpable--as it always did when Gabriel spoke.
"If you wish to penetrate the heavens," continued Luna, "you must get rid of the human conception of distance.

Man measures everything by his own stature, and he conceives dimensions by the distance his eyes can reach.

This Cathedral seems to us enormous because underneath its naves we seem like ants; but, nevertheless, the Cathedral seen from far is only an insignificant wart; compared with the piece of land we call Spain it is less than a grain of sand, and on the face of the earth it is a mere atom--nothing.