To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
CARL SAGANThe significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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