I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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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.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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