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.
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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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
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A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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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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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.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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