…But implicit is that this is somehow a limited undertaking, this thinking of man. And some of you may recall the famous comment of Pascal, that man is Reed bent by the wind. And then Pascal added, but a thinking reed. So then, the second half of the…

…thinking of man. And some of you may recall the famous comment of Pascal, that man is Reed bent by the wind. And then Pascal added, but a thinking reed. So then, the second half of the conundrum was that God knows, man thinks. Now this, I thought, was…

…an appreciation and a recognition of our position in the cosmos, which is both insignificant and paradoxically grandiose at the same time. Pascal said, man is a reed bent by the wind, but he is a thinking reed. And that's the paradox of our being,…