Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
CARL SAGANOne 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.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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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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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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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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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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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