Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANBetter the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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 seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We are all stardust.
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