The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGANA galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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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 only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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We 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.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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