The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGANIf 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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 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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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