Your god is too small for my universe.
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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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
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The visions we offer our children shape the future.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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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 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 not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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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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