Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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