Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGAN
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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