Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANWhere we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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 universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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