All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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