Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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