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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