Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Every 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.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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