We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANNature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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