
"We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the
world. We give littler thought to the machinery that generates the sun
light that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an Earth
that would otherwise sent us spinning off into space, or to the atoms of
which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally depend. Except
for the children, few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the
way it is; where the cosmos came from, or whether it was always here; if
time will one day flow backwards and effects precede causes; or whether
there are ultimate limits to what humans can know. There are even
children, and I have met some of them, who want to know what a black hole
looks like; what is the smallest piece of matter; why we remember the past
and not the future; how it is, if there was chaos early, that there
is,apparently,order today; and why there is a universe."
---A Quote from A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
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