We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
CARL SAGANThere are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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 only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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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 have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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