# Quote — John D. Barrow, The Book Of Nothing

> Everyone knows there are billions and billions of stars, and national debts conjure up similar astronomical numbers. Yet we have found a way to hide the zeros: 109 doesn't look as bad as 1,000,000,000.

- Author: [John D. Barrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-barrow.md)
- Book: [The Book Of Nothing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-barrow/the-book-of-nothing.md)
- Page: 4
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-barrow/the-book-of-nothing/everyone-knows-there

## More from this book

> The Indian religious traditions... accepted the concept of non-being on an equal footing with that of being. Like many other Eastern religions, the Indian culture regarded Nothing as a state from which one might have come and to which one might return.. Where Western religious traditions sought to flee from nothingness... a state of non-being was something to be actively sought by Buddhist and Hindus in order to achieve Nirvana: oneness with the Cosmos.

p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-barrow/the-book-of-nothing/the-indian-religious.md)

> There is a good deal more to nothing than meets the eye.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-barrow/the-book-of-nothing/there-is-a-good.md)

> The Indian system of counting is probably the most successful intellectual innovation ever devised by human beings. It has been universally adopted. ...It is the nearest thing we have to a universal language.

p. 42 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-d-barrow/the-book-of-nothing/the-indian-system.md)