The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANOne 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We are all stardust.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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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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