To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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