We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
CARL SAGANIf we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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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 permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate 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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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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