Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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