If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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