The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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