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““There are as many orders of magnitude in scale from here to a speck of dirt as from a speck of dirt to the entire observable universe.””

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“If you were a hapless cosmic hitchhiker stranded between the stars of the Milky Way, your body would represent a concentration of matter a hundred million trillion times greater than the sparse interstellar space around you. To put that another way, take a look at the tip of your little finger. That pinky end contains about 10^23 atoms. That number…

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“In powers of ten, humans exist almost halfway between the inconceivably big and the unimaginably tiny, and the final plunge from 10^-19 meters to…

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“The most distant quasars exist in a very young universe, barely a billion years old.”

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“We've been around for the tiniest sliver of cosmic time, yet our science can already take us across sixty orders of magnitude in scale.…

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“There are underlying principles at play in nature, from the fields, quanta, and forces of the universe to the ebb and flow of complexity,…

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“We are accelerating and extending our minds through our computers and algorithms, through our medical prowess and our accumulated knowledge. These minds of ours are the most precious things; we need to cherish all seven-plus billion of them. Walking this rocky globe somewhere today may be a human who will take us to the next level of insight. This person…

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“Remarkably,on the journey from 10^27 meters to 10^23 meters, in just five factors of ten we transition down from the size of the observable…

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“The gloriously bright daytime side of the Earth is therefore not just a pretty sight. It signals a relentless absorption of electromagnetic radiation. Earth…

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“The length of all DNA in your body's cells is 74 billion kilometers (or 193,000 times the distance from the earth to the moon).”

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“Our biological awareness seldom strays below a few millimeters or above a few kilometers. That is 6 orders of magnitude out of some 62.”

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“With enough infalling matter, a spinning black hole can convert mass to energy with higher efficiency than even nuclear fusion. The most luminous cases…

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“Our cosmic circumstances influence the way we see reality.”

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