“Why is it we are not constantly awed by the size and majesty of the universe?” “Habit,” he said. “We are accustomed to it. I suppose if we had been blind from birth – in both eyes – and could suddenly see, we would be so overwhelmed by a night like this that we would either gaze upward at it until dawn or else cling to the earth, afraid that we were about to fall off. Or perhaps we would simply assume that we were at the center of it all and the lords of all we beheld.” The.”
