The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
CARL SAGANI consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
CARL SAGANFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
CARL SAGANThe very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGANImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
CARL SAGANThe Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
CARL SAGANThe beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
CARL SAGANExcept in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
CARL SAGANOne of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
CARL SAGANWe are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
CARL SAGANThe universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
CARL SAGANWe make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
CARL SAGANBooks permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
CARL SAGANAll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
CARL SAGANScience is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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