We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
CARL SAGANEvery one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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