Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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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’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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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 significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGAN