Thinking synoptically about the end of the world. In a Guardian interview, Sir Martin Rees said:

"I quote [Frank] Ramsey [mathematician and philosopher], the former member of my college, on this, saying in his perspective we are more important than the stars. And I certainly don't have that despairing attitude because it seems to me what makes things important is not how big they are, but how complex and intricate they are, and human beings are more complicated and intricate than either atoms or stars. So we needn't feel subordinate to the stars because we are smaller." Full story