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We are all connected; |
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To each other, biologically |
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To the earth, chemically |
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To the rest of the universe atomically |
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I think nature's imagination |
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Is so much greater than man's |
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She's never going to let us relax |
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We live in an in-between universe |
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Where things change all right |
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But according to patterns, rules, |
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Or as we call them, laws of nature |
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I'm this guy standing on a planet |
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Really I'm just a speck |
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Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck |
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To think about all of this |
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To think about the vast emptiness of space |
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There's billions and billions of stars |
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Billions and billions of specks |
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it |
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But the way those atoms are put together |
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The cosmos is also within us |
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We're made of star stuff |
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself |
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Across the sea of space |
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The stars are other suns |
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We have traveled this way before |
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And there is much to be learned |
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I find it elevating and exhilarating |
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To discover that we live in a universe |
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Which permits the evolution of molecular machines |
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As intricate and subtle as we |
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I know that the molecules in my body are traceable |
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To phenomena in the cosmos |
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That makes me want to grab people in the street |
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And say, have you heard this?? |
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(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting) |
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There's this tremendous mess |
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Of waves all over in space |
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Which is the light bouncing around the room |
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And going from one thing to the other |
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And it's all really there |
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But you gotta stop and think about it |
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About the complexity to really get the pleasure |
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And it's all really there |
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The inconceivable nature of nature |
