The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGANI don’t want to believe. I want to know.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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 Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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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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