Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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