Quotes about Insignificance

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.