" Your story -my story, our story- began billions of years ago," she says. "But that probably doesn't come first to your mind when you wake up in the morning." A pause fills the air-conditioned room. "We need to change that."
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"We are intimately connected with these faraways times and faraways places," she continues, "because it takes a cosmos to make a human". "

― Sarah Scoles , Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence