Yet it should also be noted that when a person is told that the answer to a question lies within the realm of the supernatural, and is therefore unknowable to the human mind, it undermines our curiosity and sabotages our ability to explore our reality.
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ReplyDeleteNeil's quote is so true. It's at those times our horizons widen and our minds are open to the truths in the natural realm. The catalyst can be anything, a dew drop on a spider web or the vast evening skies.
Or an olive a the bottom of your drink that you didn't know about. Ah, the little pleasures in life seem to come to those who take time to notice and enjoy the simple things.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fox.com/programming/shows/?sh=cosmos---a-spacetime-odyssey
Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the series will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. It will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the legendary original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBTd9--9VMI
"The Cloud of Unknowing" written sometime in the 1300s.
ReplyDeleteNeil DeGrasse Tyson misses the mark so often.
"You are stardust, get over it," he says with a bit of snark.
So we humans have been told for almost 2000 years. "Dust you are, and to dust you shall return."