Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
CARL SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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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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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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