The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
To read is to voyage through time.
We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?