An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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