The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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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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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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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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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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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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