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 SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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