The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANWe are all stardust.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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