Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find 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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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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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 notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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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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Arguments from authority carry little weight, authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
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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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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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We are all stardust.
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