The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
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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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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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We are all stardust.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
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