Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
CARL SAGANHuman beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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