We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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