Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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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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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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