Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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