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.
CARL SAGANScience is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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