If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGANIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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