Nothing and Not Much

“Everybody in every galaxy is busy observing and measuring everything, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large, there’s a secret that only Nugkta and I know: that everything space and time contain is no more than the little that was generated from nothingness, the little that is and that might very well not be, or even smaller, even more meagre and perishable. And whether for good or for ill, it is because the only thing we could say is this: poor, frail universe, born of nothing, all we are and do resembles you.”
–Italo Calvino