Part resistance Darwin Wallace derives difficulty imagining passage mi — Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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