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

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

  Deepak Chopra

  Movement, Possibility, Eternal

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 09, 2011

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• Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution

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• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Science, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

  Brian Greene

  Eras, Spirit, Exploration

  "Is our universe the only universe?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

  Carl Sagan

  Order, Opposites, Greek

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

  Dean Cavanagh

  Winning, Mind, Care

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• Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.

  Lisa Randall

  Waiting, Secret

  Lisa Randall (2005). “Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions”, Lane, Allen

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• The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Ankles, Earth

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Together, Atoms

  "The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God". Book by Carl Sagan, 2006.

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• Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Loyalty, Spring, Survival

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Wish

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 332, 1980.

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• To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Smart Set, Dec. 1920

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• The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Growth, Happiness And Love, Greater

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 07, 2011

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• This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.

  Julian Huxley

  Men, Years, Mind

  "The New Divinity". "Essays of a Humanist". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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• A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

  Howard Fineman

  Objectivity, Doe, Viewpoints

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• The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Science, Understanding

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  Jackie Gleason

  Dream, Creativity, Waking Life

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• Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Law, Space, Balance

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature: Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.17, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Dark, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.

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• I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that's yet to be discovered. Here's hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

  Bill Nye

  Meaningful, Thinking, Years

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.39, St. Martin's Press

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• Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Peace, Children, Son

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• I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

  Rudy Rucker

  Eye, Mind, Looks

  Rudy Rucker (2014). “The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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• Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Issues, Greed, Paper

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