Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We 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.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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