We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
CARL SAGANWe are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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