We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The …

Carl Sagan
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.
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Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns. ✨ Carl Sagan (2011). Cosmos, p.170, Ballantine Books
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A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

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