Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We are all stardust.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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