We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Science is a way to not fool 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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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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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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