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Cosmos

Summer love abounds in the New York Times bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series, now available in a paperback boxed set. Belly has always lived for the summertime, because summer means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, an

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“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Inspiring, Magic

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

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspiring, the beauty, US

“We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, Perception, Life, Celestial

“Every star may be a sun to someone.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Star, Sun, Perspective

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Imagination, Universe, Thought

“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.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Perception, Human Being, galaxy, Cosmos, Life

“The total number of stars in the universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Astronomy

“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.1”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Cosmos, Universe, Greek word, Chaos

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and s…”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: book, Writing, Reading

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and s…”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Literary Quotes, Literature, Writing, Books, Writers

“The total number of stars in the universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Stars, Universe

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Make Believe, The Power of Imagination

“The cosmos is within us. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Science, Poetic

“There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: Atoms, Molecules, galaxy, Universe, DNA

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: The Universe, Connection, Life, Spilled Ink

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

Tagged: The Art of Awareness, Philosophy