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Carl Sagan

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
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Assemble Book Leaf Print Tree
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Butterfly Forever Human Nature Thinking
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Cosmic Deep Science
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Kind One Liner Understand
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Accumulate Destroy Ourselves Power Sure Wisdom
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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Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Believe Deep People Reason Stupidity
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Alone Coordinate Deal Greatness Information Intelligence Judgement Knowledge Manner Smart Used
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Certain Except False Mathematics Pure
There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Atom DNA Galaxy Molecule Science Stars Typical
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Destiny Hands Science Stars Stuff
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Earth Harbor Life
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

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