Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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 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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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