The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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