If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
CARL SAGANAcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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 make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We are all stardust.
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