Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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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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 a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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We are all stardust.
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