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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.

Carl Sagan

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
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
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Absence Evidence One Liner
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
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
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
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
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
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
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
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
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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Beat Born Enthusiam Kids Natural Science Scientist Start System Wonder
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars

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