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.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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