Cosmos

‘We are the cosmos made conscious’ says Brian Cox, ‘Life is the means by which the universe understands itself’.

Although Professor Cox doesn’t believe in a God, he is full of wonder and awe at our ability to understand how things work and our awareness of what things are made of. In the Narnia books one of the clever children comments that a star is simply a cloud of collapsed hot gas. An older, wiser person comments that ‘even in your world that isn’t all that stars are’.

Just because we understand what stuff is made from, it doesn’t mean we understand what they really are.

Like people! Just because I understand what you’re made from, doesn’t mean I understand you!
People are wonderful things. But not just because of what they’re made from.