Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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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 significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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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.
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