All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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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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