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Carl Sagan Quote - What an astonishing thing a book is.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

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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
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Accommodation Admire Enough Faith God Strive Truth Universe
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Arena Cosmic Earth Stage Vast
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
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Compatible Profound Science Soource Spiritual
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Chemical Science Worth
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Depth Different Giving Involvement Love Number Perhaps Relationship
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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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Distant Fusion Look Night Nuclear Science Shine Stars
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dust Live Sun Suspend
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun

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