The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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