The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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We are all stardust.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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