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Carl Sagan Quote - The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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