We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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