If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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