After 50 years of silence, I think the time has come to take stock and say, maybe we should mobilize all of the sciences to look for anything fishy, anything weird,any anomaly, both in our own little corner of the universe here on Earth and in the solar system, and far out across the galaxy."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

We're able to think about the farthest reaches of the universe and ask what our place is in the universe.

我们可以思考宇宙最远的可到达处,并问我们在宇宙中的位置是什么。

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And where we where at the start of the 20th Century in the late 1890's is that we were at a place where there was great confidence in our understanding of the universe, and our understanding of how all matter worked.

0世纪开始讲起,在19世纪的九十年代,人们对于自己,对自然的理解,对自然所有物质,如何工作的理解十分自信。

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Being a very small part of that, and part of changing our scale from where we constantly see ourselves as the most important thing in the universe, to suddenly being just a tiny piece.

我们只是宇宙的渺小的一员，我们应当改变我们的观念,不应将自己看做是,宇宙中最重要的，我们只是微小的尘埃。

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