We are all stardust.
CARL SAGANExploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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