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.
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Every 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.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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