My own sense of rapture and glory comes mostly from trying to imagine the grandeur and complexity of the universe, about which we are learning more all the time. Science tells us things that I can only describe as sublime: that we live in a universe estimated to contain some 125 billion galaxies, of which our galaxy alone contains some 100 billion stars, of which our particular star shines upon our planet and fills it with some 8.7 million diverse species of life, of which 1 species is able to study and marvel at such observations. That makes us a marvel, too: somehow, our three pounds or so
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