When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
CARL SAGAN
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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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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