Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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