I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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