Monday, December 19, 2005
Some thoughts to encourage me to see the big picture.
For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
"The Universe is Big. Really big. It may seem like a long way to the corner chemist, but compared to the Universe, that's peanuts."
Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
... it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world... Bogart as Rick in Casablanca
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For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
"The Universe is Big. Really big. It may seem like a long way to the corner chemist, but compared to the Universe, that's peanuts."
Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
... it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world... Bogart as Rick in Casablanca
