About space and time

     "This being so," asked the Earl of the River,"may I take heaven and earth as the standard for what is large, and the tip of a downy hair as the standard for what is small?"

      "No," said the Overlord of the North Sea, "Things are limitless in their capacities, incesssant in their occurrences, inconstant in their portions, uncertain in their beginning and ending. For this reason, great knowledge observes things at a relative distance; hence it does not belittle what is small or make much of what is big, knowing that their capacities are limitless".

                       ---- Chuang Chou, ca. 300 B.C.