For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANWe all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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