The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGANThe visions we offer our children shape the future.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We are all stardust.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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 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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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