The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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