All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
CARL SAGANUnderstanding is a kind of ecstasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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 you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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