The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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