ABSTRACT
For Pascal's attitude is neither scientific nor religious. The modern astronomer views the sun as a rather small but quite fairly typical star in a particular cluster. There is no reason to suppose that interstellar space is infinite. Very probably the whole of space is finite, and certainly the distances of all the visible heavenly bodies are within the range of the human mind. Infinity is the prerogative of mind rather than matter. People are compelled to plunge into the mathematics of the quantum theory at the small end, of relativity at the big end. When people come to deal with the events inside the atom the attempt to represent them in space and time breaks down, or at any rate the properties of space and time in very small quantities are so unlike those of common-sense space and time, that models are of rather slight value. In science people soon get accustomed to these large numbers.
