Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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