The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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