If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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