Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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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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