When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
CARL SAGANOur ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons.
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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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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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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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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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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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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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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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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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