The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of Science in the structure of the universe, has invited humans to study and to imitation. It is as if She had said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, "I have made an earth for humans to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach them science and the arts. They can now provide for their own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all, to be kind to each other."

Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason (1794)