"The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."
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"Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries."
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"Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group."
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"Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition."
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"We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still."
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"Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question."
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"The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos."
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"Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos."
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"We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos."
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"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean."
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"The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature."
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"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth."
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"Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors."
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"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
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"The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others."
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"ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible."
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"Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos."
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"I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?"
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"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in."
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"The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts."
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