We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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