“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings;
we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning,
understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns
in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need
freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves,
whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning
technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds,
to rise above our immediate surroundings.”
— Oliver Sacks
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