We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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