If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.
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