We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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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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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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