Man and God

many hours, he was so stunned on returning back to Earth that he burst out: What a way to come to California! John Young found all of this astounding – travelling in space in a shuttle and then landing in California in this fashion, and so on. But the fact of the matter is that, actually, every single thing in this world is astounding! Every journey, whether on foot or in a vehicle or in a space shuttle, entails so many factors and cosmic causes that if you really think about it, an ordinary journey can seem so amazing that you will cry out, “My walking, on my two feet, from one place to another is as amazing as travelling in the Columbia shuttle into space and landing in the Californian desert!” Most people are struck only by the wonders of unusual events. A truly intelligent person is one who sees wonders even in seemingly ordinary or usual phenomena. The Delight of Discovery T he sun is 12,00,000 times the size of the Earth, and is located more than 900,00,000 miles from us. Yet, we get adequate light and heat from it. Compared to many other stars, the sun is quite small, but because it is relatively close to the Earth, it seems very big to us. Actually, most stars are much bigger than the sun and emit even more light than it. Innumerable stars – an amazing world of light and heat – are scattered all over space. Despite being in existence for trillions of years, their light and heat have not been extinguished.