Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANThe brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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