What makes you think we&#x27;re insignificant?<p>Maybe it&#x27;s the psychology of how we (fail to) deal with different scales. Discovering new, larger, more wonderful places in the Universe doesn&#x27;t make the Earth any smaller or less wonderful than it is. Our brains might &quot;zoom out&quot; our mental map to fit these new places in, which makes us appear smaller, but in fact it&#x27;s our horizons that have grown.<p>According to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Books_published_per_country_per_year" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Books_published_per_country_pe...</a> there were nearly 200,000 books published in the UK in 2011. That doesn&#x27;t make the works of Shakespeare insignificant.