Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANAvoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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