The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGANScience is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We are all stardust.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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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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