A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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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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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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