The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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