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Carl Sagan Quote - 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.

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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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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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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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.
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We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
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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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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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I don’t want to believe. I want to know.
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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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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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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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