Your Ego and the Cosmic Perspective

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“All you can do is sit back and bask in your relevance to the cosmos.” There is hardly a greater cosmic sage of our age than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. In this sublime, characteristically eloquent short clip from BigThink, he echoes Ptolemy’s awe as he teases apart the misguided tension between our human ego and the immensity of the universe:

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