The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place. No planet or star or galaxy can be typical, because the Cosmos is mostly empty. The only typical place is within the vast, cold, universal vacuum, the everlasting night of intergalactic space, a place so strange and desolated that, by comparison, planets and stars and galaxies seem achingly rare and lovely. If we were randomly inserted into the Cosmos, the chance that we would find ourselves on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion (1033, a one followed by 33 zeroes). In everyday life such odds are called compelling. Worlds are precious.
Currently reading: Cosmos
De pequeño vi la serie de televisión (¿por qué no la reponen?) y me marcó. Me enseñó a alimentar la curiosidad. Así que por ahora he decidido leerme todos los libros del señor Sagan. Que no nos pase nada :D
Para todos los escépticos de ahí fuera, recomiendo The Demon-Haunted World, traducido al castellano como “El mundo y sus demonios. La ciencia como una luz en la oscuridad”.