It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.