Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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We are all stardust.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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