The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
Douglas Adams
(from The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)
Douglas Adams
(from The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)