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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
― Carl Sagan

“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk, and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.” 
― Neil deGrasse Tyson