Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
CARL SAGANAdvances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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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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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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