People · 1980
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
— Carl Sagan · Cosmos
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A playful way of saying everything depends on everything else. To bake an apple pie truly from nothing, you'd have to produce the apples, the wheat and the sugar, and that means first creating the universe they come from. It's cosmic humour about origins.
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