Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANI would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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 brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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