Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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