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.
CARL SAGANExtraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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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 society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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