It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity. - Brian Aldiss

The stone in my hand hides
A secret natural history:
Climates and times unknown,
A river unseen.

There has always been a belief in miracles in the popular mind. As L. Sprague de Camp once said, the public would rather be bunked than debunked.

Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?