The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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