Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGANThe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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 make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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