The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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