I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGANI’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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