Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
CARL SAGANAny faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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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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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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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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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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