The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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