We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
CARL SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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