If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
CARL SAGANI 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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