You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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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.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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