The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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