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 SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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