The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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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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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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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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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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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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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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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