Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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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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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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