We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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