We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANOur ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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