The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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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