The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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 are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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