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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.

— Carl Sagan Cosmos (1980)

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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

Cosmos (1980)

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Cosmos (1980)

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

Cosmos (1980)

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Contact (1985)

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

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For lovers love the western star.

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Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser The Speed of Darkness (1968)

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