Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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