Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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We are all stardust.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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