We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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