Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANStars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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