The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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 don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We are all stardust.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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