The universe in a grain of Salt

The Universe in a Grain of Salt The universe is infinitely larger than the human mind therefore how could one understand the universe. Sagan compares the human mind and its parts to a grain of salt. He says that there are more atoms in the grain of salt than there are dendrites in the human brain. Sagan puts the intricacies of the universe into a grain of salt. Since the mind cannot grasp the full …

…how the information about the universe has come about. In comparing the vastness of the universe to a grain of salt Sagan implying that we are like a grain of salt in the universe. Work Cited Sagan, Carl. “Can We Know The Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt.” Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing. Ed. Nancy R. Comely, David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, Robert Scholes, Nancy Summers. 5th ed. New York: St. Martin, 1998. 132-137