Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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