Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
CARL SAGAN
Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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