Douglas AdamsThe fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
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Albert Einstein said: We all live on a small and lonely planet, in a very big universe, which is just beginning to understand itself. And so life is bound to be rather mysterious.
Source: The Salmon Of Doubt: Hitchhiking The Galaxy One Last Time
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