Your god is too small for my universe.
CARL SAGANPeople are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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 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 a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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