Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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