What an astonishing thing a book is.
In plain words
Books are amazing - marks on paper can share someone's whole mind with you.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 11 'The Persistence of Memory' (1980; 1990 update), timestamp ~42:33, per Wikiquote's sourced section.
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 11
- 1980 · television broadcast · Cosmos TV series narration
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