The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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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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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Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
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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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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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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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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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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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