The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANWe can’t help it. Life looks for life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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