Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANYou are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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