The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
CARL SAGANIf 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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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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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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