I am not a fan for settling for average when the exceptional is possible....
To be blunt, while I'm sure he is a nice guy, and he is enthusiastic about the night sky...which is good... Greg Quickie simply did not inspire me.
On the other hand these exceptional insights do.....
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where life is sparked by sunlight and lightning in the airs and waters of youthful planets; where the raw material for biological evolution is sometimes made by the explosion of a star halfway across the Milky Way; where a thing as beautiful as a galaxy is formed a hundred billion times "
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan
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