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

…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 a 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 a 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…