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.
CARL SAGANEvery 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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