Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANWe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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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 Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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