Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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