We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANWe 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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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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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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