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.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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 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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