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Carl Sagan Quote - If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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