The Greeks were the first people with the audacity to conceive of such law and order in the welter of phenomena and the first with the genius to uncover a pattern to which nature conforms. They dared to ask for and they found a design underlying the greatest spectacle man beholds, the motion of the brilliant sun, the changing shapes of the many-hued moon, the piercing shafts of the planets, the broad panorama of lights from the canopy of stars, and the seemingly miraculous eclipses of the sun and moon.
