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Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face everyday is about as meaningful and grand and awe-inspiring as it gets. We, especially we astronomers, confront the big questions of wonder everyday and the answers to these questions in the aggregate have produced, and this is with absolutely no hype, the greatest story that’s ever been told, and there isn’t a religion, that can offer anything better.