If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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