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.
CARL SAGANA book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are all stardust.
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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 truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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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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Knowing 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.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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