I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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