Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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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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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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We are all stardust.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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