Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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