What an astonishing thing a book is.
CARL SAGANThere are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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 are all stardust.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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