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.
CARL SAGANWhen we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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We are all stardust.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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