Your god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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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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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 live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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