The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGANThe brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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