The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
CARL SAGANThose at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find 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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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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 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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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