We are all stardust.
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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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