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An excerpt from carl sagan's 'cosmos' series, where he shares his thoughts on the size and complexity of the universe and our place in it. He discusses the patterns of nature, the diversity of living things, and the importance of understanding the cosmos. The text also touches upon the origins of stars, planets, and life.
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“The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.” “The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding …” “I believe our future depends, powerfully, on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. We’re about to begin a journey through the Cosmos …it’s a story about us … how the Cosmos has shaped our evolution and our culture and what our fate may be.” “We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads; but to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature.” “Some part of our being knows this is where we came from [the stars], we long to return. And we can because the Cosmos is also within us; we are made of 'star stuff'
“.. knowledge of Cosmos.”