Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANBe grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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 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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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