For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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 absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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