We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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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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