We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude."

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

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

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

"The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality."