Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGANThe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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