What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGANEvery 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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