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Carl Sagan Quote - Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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