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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.

Carl Sagan

The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Children Future Inspirational Ofer Shape Vision
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 make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Courage Depth Significance World
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Apple Blood Calcium DNA Interior Nitrogen Stars Teeth
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
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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Cosmic Disagree Finding Galaxy Human Love Mercy Perspective Precious
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
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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Act Celebration Cosmic Magnificant Merge Modest Scale Understand
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Fools One Liner Ourselves Science
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Deception Demonstrate Emotion Human
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Disturb Glory Stupidity
We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Bound Human Quality Religion Science Thirist Wonder
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Harvest Stars Stuff Sunlight
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe

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