The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so…

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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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