The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the…

Carl Sagan
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. ✨ The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. Book by Carl Sagan, 2006.
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