Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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