Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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We are all stardust.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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 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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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