More from Carl Sagan
Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan What an astonishing thing a book is.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan
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Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison One day you’ll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.
Dolph LundgrenDolph Lundgren I’ve dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you’re both musicians.
Kelly ClarksonKelly Clarkson Allah says Jannah is awesome, imagine how awesome that is when the All-Knowing is calling it awesome.
Nouman Ali KhanNouman Ali Khan We just did an awesome job of not dying.
John GreenJohn Green We just did an awesome job of not dying.
John GreenJohn Green Be friends first when you’re dating. If it turns into something more, that’s awesome, and if not you have another friend.
Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift I am not really single, I am dating my self , I take my self out to eat, I buy myself clothes, I love me, I’m awesome.
Rowan AtkinsonRowan Atkinson