Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
CARL SAGANThe notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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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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