“ We human beings and all animals and all plants and everything on the Earth, are made of the dust that has come out of super novae. Now that’s not something I discovered, but that’s a fact. So when Joni Mitchell said: ‘We are stardust. We are golden.’ She was right. We are stardust. And I find that quite an amazing thing to think about. The material of our body did come from the insides of stars. It was made in the inside of stars.
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Brian May, astrophysicist and lead guitarist of Queen in an interview with Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air – August 2010
“…a mote of dust suspended in a sun beam.” - Carl Sagan
