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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Carl Sagan

Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Ancestor Door Family Favourite Live Night Program Sky Television
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
What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Astonish Book One Liner
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Business Carry Imagination Inspirational World
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Awake Citizen Deserve Mind Species Understand Work World
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
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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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Alone Coordinate Deal Greatness Information Intelligence Judgement Knowledge Manner Smart Used
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Arena Cosmic Earth Stage Vast
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Build Death Nature Sentimental Truth
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

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