The Importance of Knowing the Truth

In 1995, a team of NASA scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a seemingly empty patch of sky near the Big Dipper. In that tiny speck of space, they were astonished to discover 3,000 galaxies, each containing billions of stars. When NASA scientists repeated the process with longer exposures and more sensitive equipment a few years later, they saw upwards of 10,000 galaxies in that seemingly empty spot. Confronted with the mind-melting scale of the universe, one can't help but wonder, what possible influence or importance can one human have.