We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
CARL SAGANThe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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