You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
CARL SAGANWe live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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