Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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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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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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