In Praise of Humility (opens in new tab)

hen I was a boy, I was fascinated by outer space. It was an interest initiated by a coffee-table book about the universe that I pored over obsessively in our living room in a small town in southern Ontario, staring at the remarkable illustrations of the planets, trying to fathom the staggering size differential between Jupiter and Earth. I peered at the eerie reflective radiance of nebulae in the dark unimaginable reaches and wondered what it would be like […] The post appeared first on <a hr...