An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
CARL SAGANThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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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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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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