For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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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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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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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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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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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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 visions we offer our children shape the future.
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We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
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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.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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