Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANWe can’t help it. Life looks for life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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