To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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