Yesterday, one of my friends told me they didn't understand the point of my taking Astro.
Naturally, I was irate, and I responded "How can you look at the night sky, and just feel comfortable not knowing as much as you can about it? From down here, it looks like a ceiling with pretty little specks scattered across it... but it's truly 14 billion light years of depth that you can't even begin to understand until you study it a little. I thought I knew stuff, but clearly... I didn't know enough."
In an ideal world, everyone would know a little astronomy. After all, what could be more humbling?
And uhhh, just in case anyone needed more proof, or just a moment to feel good... let's not forget the classic. ;)
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