Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
CARL SAGANKnowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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