Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
CARL SAGANNot all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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We are all stardust.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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