For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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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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