The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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