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.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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 can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We are all stardust.
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