Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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