For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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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 only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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