Pale Blue Dot

Bloganuary Day 22: Time for some perspective What is your favourite quote and why? Quotes: don’t you love ’em? So much easier than having an original thought, some people say. Personally, I think that’s a rather harsh judgement: if someone else has expressed it in a better way than you could come up with, I…

A matter of perspective

The Universe, we are told, is a very big place and we are a very insignificant part of it. That’s fine by me. I love all those TV documentaries about the origins and unimaginable scale of the Universe, quantum physics and the nature of reality. Although this serenity is probably just a consequence of my inability…