The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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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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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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