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 - a Cosmos of quasars and quarks, snowflakes and fireflies, where there may be black holes and other universe and extraterrestrial civilizations whose radio messages are at this moment reaching the Earth. How pallid by comparison are the pretensions of superstition and pseudoscience; how important it is for us to pursue and understand science, that characteristically human endeavor. —Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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I was just thinking along similar lines this morning. People want to believe in magical things - gods and angels, ghosts and the afterlife, psychic powers, faith healing, blessings and curses. There seems to be an inherent desire for something beyond the perceived blandness of reality. But we don't need to look beyond reality to find magic in the world. Its all right there, just waiting to be discovered, and for all of us to issue a collective Keanu Reeves "whoah!"
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