"We might understand these discoveries [about the galaxy/universe] in intellectual terms, but they are baffling abstractions, even disturbing, like the notion that each of us was the size of a dot, without mind or thought. Science has vastly expanded the scale of our cosmos, but our emotional reality is still limited by what we can touch with our bodies in the time spanof our lives."
Alan Lightman
Our Place in the Universe: Face to Face with the Infinite
Harper's Magazine, December, 2012
What do we ever understand? Are we just blind men feeling the elephant?
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