We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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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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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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