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.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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