We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are all stardust.
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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.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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