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.
CARL SAGANWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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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.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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