Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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