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 “Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome

“Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”

~ Carl Sagan


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 “Why should the thirst for knowledge be aroused, only to be disappointed and punished? My vol

“Why should the thirst for knowledge be aroused, only to be disappointed and punished? My volition shrinks from the painful task of recalling my humiliation; yet, like a second Prometheus, I will endure this and worse, if by any means I may arouse in the interiors of Plane and Solid Humanity a spirit of rebellion against the Conceit which would limit our Dimensions to Two or Three or any number short of Infinity.”

~ Edwin Abbott Abbott


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