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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.

Carl Sagan

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Atheist Emotion Fools Liable Ourselves Strong
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
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Help Life Look Science
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Against Atheist Certain Evidence Existence God
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Apple Invention Science Scratch Universe
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
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Anticipation Anxiety Future Pay Price
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe
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
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
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

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