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Carl Sagan Quote - We 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.

We 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.

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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
CARL SAGAN

Argument Authority Expert Future Mistake Past Weight
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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Attempt Course Ourselves Safe Science Success Understand World
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Deep One Liner Stars Sun
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
CARL SAGAN

Information Science Suggestion Worship
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
CARL SAGAN

Book Break Human Magic Proof Time Work
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Claim Evidence Extraordinary One Liner Requirement Science
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
CARL SAGAN

Accumulate Destroy Ourselves Power Sure Wisdom
Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGAN

Ash Rise Science Stars
One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
CARL SAGAN

Argument Authority Command Greatness Science Trust
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
CARL SAGAN

Fools One Liner Ourselves Science
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Content Finish Library Lifetime Percent Reading Time Trick Week
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
CARL SAGAN

Body Knowledge Science Thinking
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Creature Love Vast
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Exception Exrinction Rule Survival
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.
CARL SAGAN

Book Dead Glance Hear Perhaps Reading Time Voice Voyage
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
CARL SAGAN

Hostile Indifference Universe

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