“No matter who you are, engaging in the quest to discover where and how things began tends to induce emotional fervor—as if knowing the beginning bestows upon you some form of fellowship with, or perhaps governance over, all that comes later. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.”

In the Beginning, Natural History Magazine, September 2003, 2010-12-07 http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2003/09/01/in-the-beginning,
2000s

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