Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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