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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Carl Sagan

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Ash Rise Science Stars
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Across Sea Space Stars Sun
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
You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Past Present Understand
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
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Children Future Inspirational Ofer Shape Vision
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Atheist Emotion Fools Liable Ourselves Strong
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.
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Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
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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Awareness Book Civilization Concern Culture Depth Future Health Library Test
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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Atom Beauty Cosmic Couple Live Marriage Togetherness
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Biology Cell Science
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Hostile Indifference Universe
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
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Brain Feeling Goodness Joy Muscle Understand
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

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

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