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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Carl Sagan

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Deserve Destroy Justice Science Truth
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science
Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Elegant Imagination Nature Stuble
You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Chemical Science Worth
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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Beat Born Enthusiam Kids Natural Science Scientist Start System Wonder
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
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
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
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Avoid Cause Human Ignorance Misery Ourselves Particular Stupidity
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Atheist Conviction Courage
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Distance Greatness Ignorance Mistake Perspective
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.
CARL SAGAN

Assume Come Consideration Danger Extreme Ourselves Outside Problem Solution

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