Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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