Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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 universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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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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