Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
CARL SAGANHuman beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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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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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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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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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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