Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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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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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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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 make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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