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Carl Sagan on How to Live with the Unknown

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Carl Sagan on How to Live with the Unknown
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“We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”

In our recent On Being conversation, NASA astrophysicist and exoplanet researcher Natalie Batalha said something that stopped me up short: as sentient beings endowed with awareness, we are “the universe itself becoming aware.” Echoing poet Diane Ackerman’s lovely notion of “the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoot

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