We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANNature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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