We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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We are all stardust.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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