A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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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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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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