We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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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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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 absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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