We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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