The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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 brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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We are all stardust.
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