[Change Your Life] Greener Pastures - Earl Nightingale

The other day I was reading about our universe and what we know and don’t know about it – about the billions and billions of stars and planets, and of the millions of galaxies like our Milky Way, separated by voids so vast it takes light (which travels 186,000 miles per second) about two million years to cross these almost incomprehensible distances. There are astronomers today sitting in front of telescopes looking at stars, not as they are now, but as they were five hundred million years ago. That is how long it took the light from these stars to reach us, give or take a few years!
I have a hunch I know why astronomers and scientists are so curious, as we all are, about other worlds and other galaxies. It is partly because of what I call “greener pastures.” The hope seems to spring eternal in all human beings that the opportunities are greater elsewhere. I suspect this uniquely human attribute, or frailty, has been at the root of all discovery.
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