The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
CARL SAGANEvery star may be a sun to someone.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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