Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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