Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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