If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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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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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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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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