Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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 are all stardust.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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 you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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