Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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