If you’ve never read or heard any of Carl Sagan’s works, you really need to open yourself up to the reality of reality.
There is more wonder in science than anywhere else that I’ve ever seen. It’s bigger and smaller than anything you know, it provides you with the tools to understand what you are seeing. This does not remove wonder, it enhances it.
When I look out at the majesty of the Milky Way Galaxy, it is infinitely more astonishing to me that every pinpoint of light is another sun or bunch of suns around which may be any number of planets and moons than if it were just a pretty glowing thing in the sky.
You grow and learn, childish beliefs and wonders fall by the wayside in favor of more sophisticated and infinitely more wondrous experiences.
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