The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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 are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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