Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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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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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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