Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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We 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.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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 star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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