Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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