The aggregates of joy and suffering thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
Gomile radosti i patnje tisuće pouzdanih religija, ideologija i ekonomskih doktrina, svaki lovac i tragač za hranom, svaki heroj i kukavica, svaki stvaraoc i razarač civilizacije, svaki kralj i seljak, svaki mladi zaljubljeni par, sve majke i očevi, nadobudna djeca, izumitelj i istraživač, svaki učitelj morala, svaki korumpirani političar, svaka "zvijezda", svaki vrhunski vođa, svaki svetac i griješnik u povijesti naše vrste, živjeli su ondje, na čestici prašine, uzdignutoj zrakom sunca.