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“What arrogant fools we are!” said Jag. “Don’t you see?” To this day, despite all the humbling lessons the universe has already taught us, we still try to retain a central role in creation. We devise theories of cosmology that say the universe was destined to give rise to us, that it had to evolve life like us. Humans call it the anthropic principle, my people called it the aj-Waldahudigralt principle, but it’s all the same thing: the desperate, deep-rooted need to believe that we are significant, that we’re important.

We cannot be afraid to look.
"But some things are best left unknown," she said.
"Nothing is best left unknown," said Toroca. "Nothing."

I’m old, and if that has one advantage, it’s perspective: I’ve seen so much change during my lifetime.