ecstasy

Understanding is a form of ecstasy. - Carl Sagan

http://www.onbeing.org/blog/sketchnotes-natalie-batalha-exoplanets-and-love/5039

I heard this great quote yesterday, on the public radio progam "On Being". It was an interview with Natalie Batalha, a research astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and a mission scientist with the Kepler Space Telescope. The program is titled "On Exoplanets and Love".
http://www.onbeing.org/program/on-exoplanets-and-love/5029

I have to admit, I am not optimistic about the future of the human race, and she is. Hopefully, she's right.