Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANYour god is too small for my universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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