Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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 nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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