For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANWhat an astonishing thing a book is.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are all stardust.
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