Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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