For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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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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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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