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 SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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