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Carl Sagan Quote - We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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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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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
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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Awesome Cling Destroy Humanity Live Rock Sun Universe Vast World
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
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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Beach Earth Grain Number Planet Sand Science Stars Universe
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
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
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
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
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Courage Determination Fragile Live Planet Significance Wisdom
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
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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Assure Delusion Grasp Persistence Satisfaction Universe
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science
Your god is too small for my universe.
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Atheist God Universe
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Absence Evidence One Liner
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Information Science Suggestion Worship
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Business Carry Imagination Inspirational World
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.
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Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
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
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Accumulate Destroy Ourselves Power Sure Wisdom

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