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.
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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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