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

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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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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 of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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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.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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