Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANThe only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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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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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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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