Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
CARL SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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