The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We are all stardust.
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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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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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