The shallow astonishment to which they surrender themselves, their fatuous hopes of eventually traveling in another life from star to star and in that immensity to make discoveries of always the same kind of things, this they adduce as the main point of excellence of their science a science which is worthy of admiration rather, not because of such quantitative infinitude but, to the contrary, because of the relations of measure and the laws which reason recognizes in these objects and which, in contrast to that other irrational infinitude, constitute the rational infinite.