Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor 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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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