Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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