Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANTo live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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