People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
CARL SAGANSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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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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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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We are all stardust.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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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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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
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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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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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