April 15, 2014

"We are star stuff"


"You are alive right this second. That is an amazing thing. Think of the enormous number of potential alternate universes where, for example, your great-great-grandparents never meet and you never come to be. Moreover, you have the pleasure of living on a planet where you have evolved to breathe the air, drink the water, and love the warmth of the closest star. You’re connected to the generations through DNA — and, even farther back, to the universe, because every cell in your body was cooked in the hearts of stars. We are star stuff." 

-Carl Sagan, from Lessons of Immortality by Sasha Sagan

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