Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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 beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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