We are all stardust.
CARL SAGANThe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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