Adam Frank is the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a winner of the Carl Sagan Medal. He is the author of The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (MIT Press, 2025) and Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018). He is a contributor to the Observatory.
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The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the reality we uncover. Unless we understand how this paradox arises
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