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.
CARL SAGANThe universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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 are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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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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