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A hero of mine. 💜

So cool. Seen on FB.

I wanted to find out what the fuss was about. I chose the audiobook, and that was possibly a mistake—Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces this book but does not read it, which I couldn‘t get over. Science sounds so much better coming from his mouth. The (potentially) outdated parts also bothered me some (I should probably double-check the parts that felt off as to not fix old info in my brain).

Still, it‘s readable.

3/5

My bedtime reading. I'm delightfully befuddled.

#science #universe #astronomy #naturalhistory #time #eternity

“In 1066 the Normans witnessed another return of Halley‘s Comet. Since it must, they thought, presage the fall of some kingdom, the comet encouraged, in some sense precipitated, the invasion of England by William the Conqueror. The comet was duly noted in a newspaper of the time, the Bayeux #Tapestry.”

Thanks to the NASA website for the photo.
#InQuotes

Shoutout as well to the wildly popular Carole King album I was happy to acquire as a child.

My bedtime reading. A little tricky to understand post-beer but tonight I am gaining totally new respect for Johannes Kepler!

Have a lovely weekend, fellow readers ☺️✌🏼✨

🖼️: Etsy, MelaniPykeArt

Finally we begin this. After years of wanting to read it, I am committing to making it happen. I'm so excited! I love reading about the universe and being overwhelmed by the majesty of what surrounds us.

#happynewyear everyone! Wishing everyone happiness, health, and the energy to pursue their goals and dreams in #2023

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I loved this series as a kid. It made me want to learn more about #OuterSpace and when I went to my local library and talked about it, the librarians ordered a copy of the book for me.

After something like three years of listening to this on and off to include a complete restart, I finished this audiobook. It was really hard to focus and absorb everything as the book segues quickly from one topic to the next. Still a number of the passages about the universe and space were simply mesmerizing!

I was pretty intimidated by this book before I started, and there were definitely a few technical sections I didn‘t fully grasp, but the overall view this modern classic and bestselling science book offers is simply breathtaking. With Carl Sagan as your warm, welcoming, and ever ecstatic guide, I don‘t think you can help but be swept away on this inclusive and expansive journey through space and time.

“The passage from the Chaos of the Big Bang to the Cosmos that we are beginning to know is the most #awesome transformation of matter and energy that we have been privileged to glimpse.” #QuotsyMar21

#bookmail from Thursday. Last January we visited my parents and I pulled these books from their shelves. They didn‘t fit in my suitcase, so Mom said they‘d mail them. Well...a year later, they did! Now to find some space for them 😬

1. Jupiter - Ben Bova

2. Starting Cosmos sometime this week.

3. Jupiter

#SundayFunday

#sundayfunday
1. Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
2. Tagged
3. Venus 💙💙💙
Thanks for the tag @DaveGreen7777
Tagging and sending so much love and light to @Megabooks and @NeedsMoreBooks

“...one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is #proof that humans are capable of working magic.” #QuotsyMar20

Mercury transit almost over. It's the tiny black spec in the top left. Cell phone photo though my small telescope. I'll be eighty next time this happens and is visible in North America, if I make it that is. Mercury will of course.

https://carlsaganinspace.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/cosmos-carl-sagan/

I made this by hand, finished it today. I Folded the parchment, sewed the signatures, mulled the spine, tooled and stitched the leather, pressed it, applied the finish work, and attached the corner protectors. 😁 Incidentally, the above is one of my favorite quotes from any author.

“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.”

#MayMovieMagic | 3: #WeveOnlyJustBegun

📷: Made with Typorama

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with...lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly...binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”✨📚

I‘ve fallen into a work-related #supermassiveblackhole over the last couple of weeks, and missed #anglophileapril yesterday. Which is probably a ‘run-me-out-of-town‘ type offence - they‘re quite proud of Muse round here!

So here are some (totally non-book-related) photos - a lifesize Muse mural, and a tourist information board with a poster from their homecoming gig 10 years ago. I‘d have loved to have seen that - we didn‘t live here then!

“The passage from the Chaos of the Big Bang to the Cosmos that we are beginning to know is the most awesome transformation of matter and energy that we have been privileged to glimpse. And until we find more intelligent beings elsewhere, we are ourselves the most #spectacular of all the transformations - the remote descendants of the Big Bang, dedicated to understanding and further transforming the Cosmos from which we spring.” #QuotsyApr19

Day 14: #butterflies

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There are so many different tools & techniques that the universe could use to create life.

Found on FB—Carl Sagan quote, graphic by Chris Riddle. Too perfect not to share.

https://www.facebook.com/532119136841103/posts/2041372592582409/

Magic, indeed.

I‘m only on page 40 of this book, and I‘m already hooked. Within this short amount of reading, Sagan has retold the story of ancient Alexandria, how a certain crab was artificially selected to have natural designs of samurai faces on their carapaces, and the beginnings of life on our world.

The Greek origin of the word used for the title of the book.

“Today we have discovered a powerful and elegant way to understand the universe, a method called science; it has revealed to us a universe so ancient and so vast that human affairs seem at first sight to be of little consequence.”

We are like butterflies. We flutter for a day and think it is forever! #cosmos #carlsagan #punyhumans

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

#QuotsyNov18 | 20: #Universal

📷: Made with Typorama

#author #quotsynov18

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“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” #Sail #QuotsyAug18

This is finally getting interesting!

I remembered to bring a book this time! 😥😆

Their snoring makes great background music for reading 😂😋😅

Slow progress still means progress 😜

But the essence of life is not so much the atoms and simple molecules that make us up as the way in which they are put together.

I like the idea of this book and I loved the tv series, but I'm finding Sagan's writing extremely annoying. 😓

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan's writing is beautiful and his hope for humanity was pure. The above quote was one of many mind blowing moments from this book. I've been interested in astronomy and physics for a long time but I'd never heard that before. We could have been in a binary system but Jupiter didn't have enough mass to ignite properly so instead of a star it became a gas giant.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty.

There is a reason that this is considered a modern classic! Aside from the fact that it‘s beautifully written, almost all of the science in this 30+ year old book still holds up today. There was so much more history in here than I expected and I was absolutely fascinated by it! I loved this as an audiobook, but I think I need to get a physical copy as well. If science is at all your jam, read this book! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

So many good quotes in this book.

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
-Carl Sagan

This book is so much more in-depth than I had anticipated. He even talks about libraries. 📚