The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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