If you look at the stars, warding off the rays (as may be done by looking through a small hole made by the extreme point of a fine needle placed so as almost to touch the eye), they will appear so small as to seem as though nothing could be smaller; it is owing to their great distance that they appear so small, for many of them are very many times larger than the star which is the earth with its water. Now reflect what appearance this our star must have from so great a distance, and then consider how many stars might be placed--both in longitude and latitude--between those stars which are sown in the dark space.
太陽為宇宙能量之最
每一寸角落，每一個生靈，都沐浴在太陽的光輝下。火因它而生，以此延續生命。因為，萬物生存的能量由靈魂賦予。寰宇之內，再也不見如太陽這般，擁有巨大能量和光輝的所在。
in the universe there is no body of greater magnitude and power to be seen than the sun. And its light illumines all the celestial bodies which are distributed throughout the universe; and the vital spark descends from it, because the heat which is in living beings comes from the soul, and there is no other centre of heat and light in the universe,
麵相術與手相術皆迷信
麵相術和手相術，沒有科學支撐，純屬故弄玄虛。此類弄虛作假的事物，於我絲毫沒有吸引力。誠然，某些時候人的相由心生。譬如，在臉頰與嘴唇，以及鼻翼與眼窩間，如若輪廓分明，則此人歡樂風趣，反之則是位敏感沉思之人。再如，臉部輪廓與紋路分明者，嚴峻冷酷，蠻橫無理。如紋路凸顯於眉宇間，脾氣暴躁。如凸顯於前額，必是悲春懷秋之人。麵相或許有些許道理，手相則毫無意義。那些戰死沙場的士兵們，那些被海神吞沒的遇難者，難道他們的掌紋出自同一模子嗎？
I will not dwell on false physiognomy and chiromancy because there is no truth in them, and this is manifest because chimeras of this kind have no scientific foundation.
It is true that the lineaments of the face partly reveal the character of men, their vices and temperaments; but in the face: the features which separate the cheeks from the lips, and the nostrils and cavities of the eyes, are strongly marked if they belong to cheerful and good-humoured men, and if they are slightly marked it denotes that the men to whom they belong are given to meditation, Those whose features stand out in great relief and depth are brutal and bad-tempered, and reason little, Those who have strongly marked lines between the eyebrows are bad-tempered。Those who have strongly marked lines on the forehead are men full of concealed or unconcealed bewailing. And we can reason thus about many features.