Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Exploration 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.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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