Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGANThe very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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We are all stardust.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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