Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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