Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANAnd you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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.
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.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
CARL SAGANEvery one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
CARL SAGANArguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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We are all stardust.
CARL SAGANWe are all stardust.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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