“Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.”

— Peter J. Carroll

Source: The Apophenion (2008), p. 11; this makes reference to William Blake's Auguries of Innocence: "To see the world in a grain of sand…"

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