Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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