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.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We are all stardust.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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