https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/05/carl-sagan-jonathan-cott-rolling-stone-interview/

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

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

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