The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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 make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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 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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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