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.
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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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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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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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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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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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