If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this reall... - Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"

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