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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carl Sagan

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Dependent Exquisite Live Science Society Technology
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Book Century Flower Lie Promise Seed Soil
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Ambition Harmony Human Perfection Requirement Universe
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 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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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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Compose Dust Galaxy Gas Stars Sun
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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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