You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANAny faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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