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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Carl Sagan

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun
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
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Awful Place Pretty Science Space Universe Waste
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
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
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Exclusive Mutual Notion Science Spiritual
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
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Arena Cosmic Earth Stage Vast
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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