We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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