If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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