The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into i... - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
More quotes by Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang."
"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."
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"