Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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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.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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