We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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We are all stardust.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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