We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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