Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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