Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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