If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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We are all stardust.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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 live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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