We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
CARL SAGANKnowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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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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