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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Atheist Believe Knowledge Proof Science Want
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Chemical Science Worth
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Atom DNA Galaxy Molecule Science Stars Typical
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Absence Evidence One Liner
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Earth Environment Nature Place Ruin
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Delicate Forbidden Matter Scare Science Sensitive Truth
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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