Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We are all stardust.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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