And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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We are all stardust.
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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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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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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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