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.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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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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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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