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.
CARL SAGANWe all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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We are all stardust.
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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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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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