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Carl Sagan Quote - We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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