We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANIf it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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