Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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