Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANThe 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 are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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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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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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