The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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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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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.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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