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Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Interview with TIME magazine.

Interviewer: "What is the most astounding fact that you can share
              with us about the universe."

Neil: "The most astounding fact ..."

Interviewer: "The most astounding fact."

Neil: "... is the knowledge ... that the atoms that comprise
       life on Earth. The atoms that make up the human body,
       are traceable to the crucibles that cooked Light Elements
       into Heavy Elements in their core, under extreme
       temperatures and pressures."

Neil: "These stars, the high mass ones among them, went unstable
      in their later years. They collapsed and then exploded
      SCATTERING their enriched guts across the galaxy.

      Guts made of Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and all the
      fundamental ingredients of life itself. These
      ingredients become part of Gas Clouds that condense,
      collapse, form the next generation of Solar Systems
      (Stars with orbiting planets) and those planets have
      the ingredients for life itself."

Neil: "So that when I look up at the night sky, and I know
      that yes we are part of this universe, we are in this
      universe, but perhaps more important than both of those
      facts, is that the universe is in us.

      When I reflect on that fact, I look up, many people feel
      small cause their small and the universe is big, but I
      feel big. Because my atoms came from those stars.

      There's a level of connectivity. That's really what you
      want in life, you want to feel connected. You want to
      feel relevant. You want to feel like ... a ... you're
      a participant in the goings on of activities and events
      around you. That's precisely what we are, just by
      being alive."