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#1

“The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#2

“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.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: love, mercy

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#3

“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

tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars

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#4

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

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#5

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

tags: genius, humor, laughter, philosophy

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#6

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

tags: optimism, seti, universe

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#7

“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: chaos-theory, quantum-physics, schrodinger-s-cat, wisdom

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#8

“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.”
― Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams

tags: achievement, advancement, butterfly-effect, change, change-your-life, change-your-mind, growth, growth-process, inspirational, many-worlds-interpretation, new-thought, paradigm-shift, quantum-physics, self-help, success, thought

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#9

“The truth is, everyone is confused by quantum physics.”
― David Walton, Superposition

tags: quantum-physics

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#10

“I imagined a New World where instantaneous creation from pure thought into full physical form to be very possible. What a world it would be if there were more and more people walking and talking like master creators and master alchemists creating something out of nothing, defying the constraints of space and time.”
― Tahira Amir Khan, Through The Golden Door: The Doorway to Our Advancement

tags: alchemy-quotes, quantum-physics, spirituality

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#11

“You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons," they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: humor, science

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#12

“Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, "I am going to tell you something that you will never forget." And then he said, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

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