![]() Skepticism enables us to distinguish fancy from fact, to test our speculations. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. Those explorations required skepticism and imagination both. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. ![]() ![]() And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. ![]() Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us-there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. THE COSMOS IS ALL THAT IS OR EVER WAS OR EVER WILL BE. ![]()
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