You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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