The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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