To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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