Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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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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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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 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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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.
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