Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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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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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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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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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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