Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANThere are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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