We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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