Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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 not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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Every star may be a sun to someone.
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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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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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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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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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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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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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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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