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CARL SAGANThe total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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