We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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