Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
CARL SAGANNothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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