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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan 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.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan What an astonishing thing a book is.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
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Karl MarxKarl Marx Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA. P. J. Abdul Kalam A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert FrostRobert Frost Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert FrostRobert Frost Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
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