The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into i... - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

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

"If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."

"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process."

"We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose."