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As to dimension: It is true that we are tiny relative to the cosmos.
Everything is tiny relative to the cosmos - even a galaxy is
but
one among billions
- and to fret about this is to confuse size
with stature. We are well advised to bow to no tyranny of mere
size, to heed the lesson of Lao Tsu, Aristotle, Leonardo and
Darwin, who teach that the truth is less often attained by gaping
at the grand than by scrutinizing the small. The human body is a
galaxy to a microbe, yet without microbes the body would not live
an hour. If we feel awe, let us address it not to dimension but to
being - and
we share being with the galaxies themselves.
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