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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

Carl Sagan

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Courage Determination Fragile Live Planet Significance Wisdom
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
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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desperatel Determination Preference Prejudice Puzzle True Truth Want Work
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Accommodation Admire Enough Faith God Strive Truth Universe
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
We are all stardust.
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One Liner Stardust
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Cosmic Enough Explore Investigation Nature Ocean Ready Sail Shore Stars Wander

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