Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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 Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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We are all stardust.
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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 society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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