For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
CARL SAGANThe universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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