To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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