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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

Carl Sagan

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
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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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Advance Agriculture History Live Lost Medicine Save Science Vast War
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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Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Argument Cure Ideas Suppression
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
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
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Awareness Book Civilization Concern Culture Depth Future Health Library Test
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Blind Citizen Distant Greatness Human Invention People Togetherness Writing
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Explanation Love Peverse Science Want World
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Attempt Course Ourselves Safe Science Success Understand World

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