We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANYou have to know the past to understand the present.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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 universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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