Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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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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