Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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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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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We are all stardust.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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