We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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