The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANNothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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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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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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We are all stardust.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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