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

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

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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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