The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the Universe. That’s the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.

— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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