We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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