Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANAny faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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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 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.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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