We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.
Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever.
It's an audacious thing to build a model of the cosmos. It's exciting how little we know.
It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.
I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.
We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
We are a very, very unusual species.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
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.
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