"The unknown. That is where my imagination yearns to venture. And so the question plagues me still. How does a man come to know the unknowable?”
"A thousand leagues along the equator. Where knowledge ended, speculation began. That's where the whales had gone to hide. As far from man as they could possibly go. But we hunted them down. Centuries before, sailors feared sailing off the edge of the Earth. But we were headed for the edge of sanity. Trust gave way to doubt. Hope to blind superstition.”
“What offense did we give God to upset him so?
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The only creature to have offended God here is the whale.
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Not us? In our arrogance, our greed, look where we find ourselves.
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We are supreme creatures made in God's own likeness. Earthly kings whose business it is to circumnavigate the planet bestowed to us. To bend nature to our will.
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You really feel like a earthly king after everything that we've been through? We're nothing. We're specks. And dust.”
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