Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANWriting is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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