We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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