The Pythagoreans say, ‘Look at the sky at dawn’ - to remind ourselves of the constancy of those heavenly bodies, their perpetual round of their own duty, their order, their purity, and their nakedness. No star wears a veil.
— Aurelius, Meditations, trans. Martin Hammond
On the scale of worlds —to say nothing of stars or galaxies— humans are inconsequential. A thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.
— Carl Sagan
