For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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 are all stardust.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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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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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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