Terrified?

Following up on Brendan's excellent report Monday:

“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

To which we can imagine Carl Sagan's reply:

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Or

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Or

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

And

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.