We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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