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.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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