We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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