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.
CARL SAGAN
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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