Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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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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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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Don’t judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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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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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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We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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