When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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