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.
CARL SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are all stardust.
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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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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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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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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Science is a way to not fool 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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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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