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We are made of starstuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. We have come from the interstellar medium and into the form of conscious beings able to ask the supreme questions.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (television series novelization) (1980)
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The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they are made of stardust literally.

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

4w ago

The true function of philosophy is not to provide final answers, but to keep alive in us the sense of wonder at the world and our place in it.

1mo ago

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; we are made of stellar material, and the iron in our blood was forged in dying stars.

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An irrational number — a number that cannot be expressed as a fraction, the ratio between two whole numbers — π unmoors our basic intuitions about reality with its disquieting whisper of an infinity beyond the grasp of reason.

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The atoms of our bodies are traceable to origins in the distant past; they have formed the cores of stars—gone through many transformations of the universe and of all the transformations of matter in space and time we are their inheritors.

1mo ago

We are made of starstuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

1mo ago

those moments when our sudden stupefaction facing the world grows so profound that a pillow of air seems to lodge itself in our throats and we suddenly notice we haven't even taken a breath in tens of seconds.

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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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