You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANNot explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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