Too grandiose an aspiration

To be sure, understanding the whole of the universe seems like too grandiose an aspiration when we are continually struggling to understand the tiny subset of the universe that is ourselves.

~ Maria Popova from, https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/05/carl-sagan-jonathan-cott-rolling-stone-interview/

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As with many things Maria Popova creates, anything I add would simply detract. Click. Thank me later.

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