For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANNothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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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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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 universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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