¶ Human Beings & Complex Universe
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"microcosm and macrocosm, getting information from an incredible 11½-billion-light-years-around sweepout… optically and photographically.
“Human beings are here as a function of Universe. We have to find our way and be sure that we develop. We are born naked, helpless, and ignorant with hunger, thirst, and procreative urge–and curiosity to drive us to make mistakes. We learn gradually by trial and error what works and what doesn’t work. And we invent words to be able to intercommunicate our experiences about what works and what doesn’t work. This is a tremendously important sequence of events taking place. We are at the point where we have 150,000 words in the Oxford dictionary”, making it clear that human beings have agreed to those 150,000 nuances of experiences that are so unique as to require their own word. That we have agreed on all that seems to me a great victory of man because it is very hard to agree on fundamentals. Here we have an enormous accomplishment and capability to interact. This enables us to integrate experiences of both those of us alive with those of us of the past who are dead–through their"
