Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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 Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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