I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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