Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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