Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
CARL SAGANWe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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