Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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