Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
CARL SAGANThe price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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