We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANWe are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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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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