Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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