Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
CARL SAGANScience is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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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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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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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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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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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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When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
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