We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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