Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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