We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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We are all stardust.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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