All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
CARL SAGANWe can’t help it. Life looks for life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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