Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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 the only world known so far to harbor life.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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We are all stardust.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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