Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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