Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANOther things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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We are all stardust.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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