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Stars Quotes by Carl Sagan

51 Stars quotes by Carl Sagan

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A rock of metal orbiting a humdrum star reminds us that our planet is just one of billions in the Milky Way. The quotes describe stars as suns for other worlds, as the source of the iron in our blood and the carbon in our genes, and even as phoenixes that rise from their own ashes. They also note that looking from space makes national borders fade.

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We are all star stuff.

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Every star may be a sun to someone.

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We are all made up of star stuff.

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We are made of starstuff.

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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or…

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We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.

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I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and…

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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe,…

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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun…

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Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for…

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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of…

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A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is…

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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little…

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For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck…

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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only…

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The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they…

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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…

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We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution…

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After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun,…

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I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to…

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We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly…

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We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars…

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Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric…

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I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun…

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We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms…

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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know.…

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“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the…

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It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us…

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Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a…

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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most…

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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the…

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“Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of…

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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

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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,…

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully…

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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this…

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

Every star may be a sun to someone.