Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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I 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.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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We are all stardust.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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