The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
CARL SAGANI consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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