Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGANThe universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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